The Importance of Language: Leftist Thugs are Terrorists, not Protesters or Snowflakes Townhall, Feb 6, 2017, Jack Kerwick
While violence has always had a home on the political left, and while the left in America has been engaging in violence from at least the time of the late 1960s, forces on the thuggish left became emboldened during Obama’s tenure in the White House. Within the last year or so, they have become especially brash and merciless toward Trump supporters.
This came to a head recently at Berkeley when “protesters” prevented provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from delivering a planned speech. Mobs of anti-Milo and anti-Trump demonstrators were on the scene. No small number were self-described “anti-fascists” (or “antifa”) clad in black with masks concealing their faces. Things turned feral as fires were lit, Molotov cocktails were thrown, property was destroyed, officers were assaulted, and innocents were tear-gassed and beaten up with various weapons.
And the police arrested…no one.
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The Democrats who control the Government-Academic-Hollywood-Media Complex are like the proverbial person who runs into a crowded theater and screams “Fire!” In demonizing the president and his tens of millions of supporters as “racist,” “sexist,” “Islamophobic,” “homophobic,” “xenophobic” and the like, the non-violent Democratic left aid and abet their more overtly thuggish counterparts on the streets.
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In a future essay, I will propose ways for law-abiding patriotic Americans to deal with those who would harm them. For now, however, we’d be well served to call to mind Confucius, whose doctrine of “the Rectification of Names” underscores the importance of calling things for what they are.
“Protesters” or “demonstrators” do not act violently. Those who act violently for any reason other than self-defense are thugs, criminals, felons. Those who act violently in mobs are rioters. And those who act violently toward innocents for the sake of altering the direction of government or government policy are terrorists. Read more:
http://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2017/02/06/the-importance-of-language-leftist-thugs-are-terrorists-not-protesters-or-snowflakes-n2282113
